Intrepid traveler overcomes all obstacles to shoot the stars

Ye Ziyi has been obsessed by the cosmos since 2003, when she joined an astronomy club at age 15 and was given the opportunity to visit an observatory in the Beijing suburbs to view the night sky through an astronomical telescope.

"I was completely shocked by the sky's boundlessness and wanted to know more about the stars," she said.

In 2009, she began a quest to produce a photographic representation of a solar eclipse from several locations. To realize her objective, she made separate trips to Shanghai, Kenya, the Arctic Ocean, Indonesia and the United States, taking shots of different partial eclipses she eventually combined into a whole.